Theme 4: Measures of Development

Question 1

What are the 5 indicators of development?

Answer 1

1. Access to clean water
2. Number of mobile phones
3. Access to internet
4. Energy consumption
5. Proportional of agricultural jobs

Question 2

What are the 3 measurements of development

Answer 2

1. Human development index

Question 3

What does the HDI look at?

Answer 3

1. Education- number of years
2. Living standards- real GNI
3. Health- life expectancy at birth

Question 4

What is gross national income?

Answer 4

Gross Domestic Product plus the net income from abroad (remittances)

Question 5

How is our final human development index calculated?

Answer 5

An average of each of the 3 scores (0 to 1) are found

Question 6

What are the 2 advantages of the HDI?

Answer 6

1. Holistic- so more reliable looks at the 3 most important development factors so more reliable than single indicators.
2. Comparable- so can know which countries to send aid to

Question 7

What are 2 disadvantages of the HDI?

Answer 7

1. Unreliable as there are many indicators it does not use.
2. Ignores distribution of development- making comparison harder.

Question 8

What is the iHDI (inequality-adjusted HDI) value

Answer 8

Takes the normal HDI and then adjusts it to account for different levels of inequality. If the IHDI is below the HDI, then there is inequality.

Question 9

What does the multidimensional poverty calculate?

Answer 9

1. The number of people in poverty in a country
2. The average intensity of poverty.

Question 10

What does a high MPI show us?

Answer 10

A country has low levels of development

Question 11

What is the multidimensional poverty index?

Answer 11

Measures education, health and living standard using 10 different indicators. It measures the number of people in poverty and the average intensity of poverty.